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In October 1918, a few German generals, led by General Luddendorff, refused to admit that the war was lost. They decided to attempt a last-ditch struggle, using the powerful German Navy. However, the troops refused to obey them. In Kiel, the main German port on the Baltic Sea, seamen mutinied and established a Soviet. Workers' trade-unions joined them, and the insurgents, carrying red flags, marched against the neighbouring cities. General Erich Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff (sometimes referred to by his honorary title Erich von Ludendorff) (April 9, 1865 – December 20, 1937, Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany) was a German Army officer, noted as a general during World War I. Ludendorff was born in Kruszewnia near Posen, Prussia (now PoznaÅ„, Poland). ... // History German frigate Karlsruhe rescuing shipwrecked people off the coast of Somalia while participating in the international anti-terror operation ENDURING FREEDOM, April 2005 The German Navy (German: Deutsche Marine   listen?) is the navy of Germany. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, from 53 deg. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

At that time, approximately 15,000 Alsatians and Lorrains had been incorporated into the Kriegsmarine. Several of them joined the insurrection, and decided to rouse their homeland to revolt. On 8 November, the proclamation of the Republic of Councils in Bavaria (see Bavarian Soviet Republic) was aired in Strasbourg, the capital city of Alsace. Next day, thousands of demonstrators rallied on the Kléber Square, the main square in Strasbourg, to acclaim the first insurgents returning from northern Germany. A train controlled by insurgents was blocked on the Kehl bridge, and a loyalist commander ordered to shoot on the train. One insurgent was killed, but his fellows took control of the city of Kehl. The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... HA HA HA!!!! ... City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Area 78. ...

The insurged seamen established a Council of Strasbourg Soldiers, and took control of the city. Red flags were hoisted all over the city, including on the spire of the cathedral (142 metres above ground level). A Council of Workers and Soldiers was then established and presided by the leader of the brewery workers' union. He said that "we have nothing in common with capitalist states, our motto is: neither German neither French nor neutral. The red flag won." In sail boat racing a solid red flag is known as a Protest Flag. ...

Such Soviets were also established in other Alsatian cities: the first of them was founded in Haguenau on 9 November, followed by Mulhouse, Sélestat and Colmar. All over the front, French and German soldiers fraternized and marched with red flags. In Lorraine, several Italian immigrants joined the insurrection. In Metz, the insurgents' Council occupied the city hall, on which was hoisted a Turkish flag whose crescent and star had been coloured with red lead paint.

The social-democrat leader in Strasbourg, Jacques Peirotes, asked the French generals "to bring forward the entrance of French troops in the city, the domination by the Reds being about to have a tragic outcome". The entrance had been planned to 25 November, but was brought forward to the 22nd. The Council of Workers and Soldiers decided to give all power to the French army. All the decrees proclaimed by the Strasbourg Soviet were immediately cancelled. Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ...

Source: Didier Daeninckx , 11 novembre 1918: le drapeau rouge flotte sur Strasbourg et l'Alsace proclame la République des soviets... Amnistia. net, 10 November 2000.